Video of Union Bosses "At Work"

[Kingman]

From: Workforce Fairness Institute

Dear Friend,

As soon as I saw this video I knew immediately that I had to share it with you. While the workers at this Ford plant in Michigan are hard at work, their union bosses are hardly working. The contrast between the workers and their union bosses could not be more stark. The workers in the plant are building cars and keeping our economy on track, while their big labor “leaders” are abusing the system to line their own pockets. This is not just wrong, it’s an outrage.

In this tough economy, where both employees and business owners are struggling to make ends meet, it’s sad to see Big Labor bosses squandering and misusing worker dues.

Now, these same union executives are asking us to trust them as they push for the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act, legislation which would kill jobs. All the while, they are making statements that lack credibility and honesty. The head of Michigan AFL-CIO thinks that the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act would “prevent against the kind of economic collapse that has crippled the nation.” In truth, EFCA would stifle productivity, diminish workers rights, and result in a hostile takeover of small businesses across the country.

You already know and understand the dangers of EFCA, but many of your friends do not. Please share this video along with this petition with your friends so they can learn about the mentality behind those pushing for EFCA in Washington, D.C. To compete with the millions of dollars from Big Labor, we need a louder, stronger voice – will you recruit your friends to join our movement?


To Victory,
Jason McBride
Workforce Fairness Institute

http://www.unionbossesatwork.com/UnionBosses/B.html

http://www.mlive.com/businessreview/oakland/index.ssf/2009/04/aflcios_gaffney_act_could_prev.html

http://www.workforcefairness.com/tell

 

[Mullet]

does not suprise me one bit.

Also, anyone trying to defend unions should watch this video first.

 

[BlackICE]

I am not a big union fan, but to be fair, one can always find bad apples in every line of work, union, or not. We can come up with videos of non-union managers at many companies doing even more egregious things. The real question is if this is common practice, or an anomaly. I have my own guess on this, but will refrain from voicing them.

To honor our friend, Bony we should keep this thread clean as he would have liked it to be.

BTW, I hope Ford is investigating the guys in the 1st video and terminating them if the video portrayal is accurate.

 

[GT Tech]

I know where your coming from Kingman. I saw it first hand. Believe me, there are a lot of pissed off line workers, including myself.

What is scaring the sh*t out of me is that in the next 3 years, these same clowns will be responsible for paying for my health insurance. Their record of financial responsibility tends to be horrific at best.

A little known fact concerning people who actually work for the UAW (not the average line worker). The way our pension plan works, if we retire before we are old enough to collect SS, we get our pension, and a "bridge" equal to what we would receive from SS. When we turn 66, the bridge drops off. So our pension stays the same. BUT, if you work for the UAW, (committee men and up), You don't lose the bridge. The UAW is the only union that has this clause. In the 30 years I worked at Ford, I never met anyone higher than the local UAW president. Guess I wasn't in the right "click"

I could go on, but I need to keep my blood pressure under control.

 

[jamie]

Does anyone know if there was anything done at Ford about this particular abuse and anything to curb further abuses?

 

[Indy GT]

Thanks GT Tech for your perspective. It is always helpful to hear from those who have actually been in the labor trenches to hear what they have to say. We appreciate your perspective...

 

[PL510*Jeff]

As Rich said big Unions have sooo many perks for the "faithful few" in their organizations.

In the pipe trades( plumbers and pipe fitters) the average member has a national pension, local pension, supplemental pension all with a pretty generous COLA provisions. These all paid for by the employer. Currently it runs about $15.60 per hour worked. $30,000 pension yearly contribution for each full time journeyman. One of my recent retiree's said he makes more in retirement that he did when he was working. Something to the tune of $8,700
per month vs $7,200 when working. And he retired early @55!

And in addition to those pensions, there are additional special pension programs for all local, regional and national union officers, pensions for "serving" on the various Pension boards, Health and Welfare Boards, Apprenticeship boards, Training Fund Boards, etc. These are paid for "as cost of operations" to the elected union officials. From the funds contributed by the employers. The payout for a union official who has "served" the members for 5 years or more begins at an additional 50% of their home local pension and if they serve more than 10 years the payout is 100% added to the local pension. From what I've been told, $200k a year in retirement benefits isn't unheard of for a a "long serving" union official.:bs

As a union employer, the one good thing is that there is No Unfunded Employer Liability to worry about. The down side is that I can't do that type of pension contribution for my other non-union employees, or myself for that matter.

Need to stop - my b.p. is going off the chart thinking about this.:ack

 

[Pete S.]

Indy GT,

slightly ( excessively off) topic, are you making it down to Carlisle next month? I noticed you had made a reference to seminar time slots on that thread.

Pete S.

. . . enjoying this thread and realizing that no union employee would ever fully support every ( or any ) union boss.

 

[S592R]

using the video as evidence wouldn't Ford be able to seek criminal fraud charges against these guys?

 

[Quickdraw]

using the video as evidence wouldn't Ford be able to seek criminal fraud charges against these guys?

For the most part the company looks the other way. Ford has to pay them anyway and if they are out of the plant they aren't stirring up trouble inside the plant. The local union bargaining committee can make it hard for plant management by enforcing the letter of the work rules, opposing outsourcing, looking for minor health and safety violations (a loose floor block, etc) and undoubtedly other ways I’m not even aware of....

 

[RALPHIE]

I think I'd rather have them out of the plant anyway. They certainly won't be doing any real work, and probably slow down the efforts of workers on the line. It's too bad that the union workers don't vote them out, as they only give the impression that all the union members are takers and lazy.